Being Artist Quotes
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I don't think you can prevent an artist from being and I don't think you can cause one to be. No one knows what makes an artist.
— Robert Engman
I never imagined I'd be a solo artist. And now I couldn't imagine being part of a group.
— Morrissey
To an artist, creating an image means being in love with it.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
Life is different than it was in the Nineties. I'm a dad, and there are other things I have to get done in an afternoon than just being an artist.
— Chris Robinson
Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Do not strive to be a modern artist: it's the one thing, unfortunately, you can't help being.
— Salvador Dali
I don't know if I'll ever get used to hearing my name being mentioned alongside all these other legendary artists that have come before me.
— Gretchen Wilson
Every human being is an artist
— Joseph Beuys
Being an artist is very independent thinking, although there's always going to be a lot of doubt.
— Brice Marden
I really don't like being referred to as a folk artist.
— John Martyn
In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior. In America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.
— William Faulkner
If you are wiling to do something that might not work, you are closer to being an artist.
— Seth Godin
Over the years I have learned that creating art has made me happy. I used to be a lawyer and I'm much happier being an artist.
— Nathan Sawaya
I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
— Orson Welles
Creatively, I'd like to achieve not only being an artist, but being a businessman and having my own music home.
— Anthony Hamilton
It must be frustrating being a poet-or any sort of artist-and not being able to offend anyone any more.
— Alexander McCall Smith
The sexuality is being sold to the artists as power when in fact it's not; it's a way of hypnotizing their audience.
— Sinead O'Connor
I feel like being an artist and being an activist are separate things; I know some people who feel very differently.
— Oscar Isaac
Being an artist is more than a job or a skill; it's a way of walking through the world.
— Anita Diamant
The privilege of struggling artists is ... the life being buried in what we can't really afford of* what a gorgeous life!!
— Hiroko Sakai
You've rarely got an artist that's not being chauffeured into the business by some huge-ass names.
— Pharoahe Monch
There are so many great artists, I think, who kind of suffer from being icons, legends, acknowledged masters.
— Richard Linklater
A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
People still look at Michael Jackson as being a Motown artist.
— Smokey Robinson
Women are emotional! And being an artist and a woman is probably more difficult because you have more stuff to overcome.
— Chris Johnson
Every painting I do blends time frames. The great thing about being an artist is I can make the past join the present in some reality of the future.
— Thomas Kinkade
Being a songwriter requires versatility while being an artist requires you to create a cohesive body of work. I truly enjoy both.
— Wendy Starland
Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them.
— Annette Messager
Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination.
— Robert Genn
The best thing about being an artist is the free clothing and getting to kiss pretty girls.
— James Rosenquist
There's this privileged position of being an artist where you can do things on a more experimental nature simply to see what happens.
— Andrea Zittel
Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Imagine being 30 years old, thinking you were a media titan, and now you are labeled a 'scam artist.'
— Jason Calacanis
Not any particular religion or school of religion, but being an artist, you have to be spiritual, in a way.
— Hiroshi Sugimoto
The artist after all is a solitary being.
— Virginia Woolf
Artistic honesty sometimes prevents an artist from being born.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
If you can inspire a kid that's maybe the best part of being a comic book artist.
— Marko Djurdjevic
You must make love to him like his touch is your salvation.
— Charlotte Eriksson
I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
— Claude Monet
To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing.
— Marcel Duchamp
Being an artist is being an isolated individual.
— Asger Jorn
I would say being deeply involved in the art world would help keep a young artist on track. Doing what you love, so that your focus is your artistry.
— Jada Pinkett Smith
My growth as a human being has been directly proportional to my growth as a marital artist.
— Chris Matakas
Wasn't the whole point of being an artist, or at least part of it, that you didn't have to wear a tie?
— Meg Wolitzer
The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates it in the work of art.
— Ernest Becker
Just for the record, being smeared with shit and naked in the wilderness, spattered with pink vomit, this does not necessarily make you a real artist.
— Chuck Palahniuk
The person who practices an art is an artist, not a samurai, and one should have the intention of being called a samurai.
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe.
— Ernst Haas
Being an artist is supposed to be a scam, not a career.
— Wade Guyton
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.
— Charles Baudelaire
Being an artist is celebrating life.
— Henry Moore
A true artist could and should create till the day they die. You don't ever fail as an artist until you quit being an artist.
— Christian Keiber
There's such a freedom about being an artist ... You're not accountable - you're this renegade thing.
— Cornelia Parker
My father didn't think being an artist was a respectable or worthy goal for a man.
— Richard Diebenkorn
A human being is a real artist and a creative in any field, not a programmed robot in some factory.
— Shawn Lukas
Being an artist is a job for life.
— Brian Eno
You don't get to celebrate yourself unless you risk being mocked or rejected. As an artist, you cannot play it safe. You just can't.
— M. Night Shyamalan
I think confidence is the most appealing quality in any human being or any artist; that's what really attracts us to people.
— Marilyn Manson
To be an artist means a lifetime of being told no, with the occasional yes showing up just to give you enough hope to carry on.
— Jami Attenberg
A lot of my building blocks - who I am kind of as an artist - all came from being in L.A.
— Steve Aoki
The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist.
— Lenny Kravitz
The fact that people are embracing me so well as a new artist and being taken so seriously is something I'm really surprised by.
— Alessia Cara
The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable.
— Steven Pressfield
I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me.
— Ralph Steadman
I'm just being myself. To me, that people are interested in Jenni, not necessarily the artist, but the woman ... it amazes me still.
— Jenni Rivera
Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.
— Youssou N'Dour
Being a black artist, the first thing people want to talk about is your blackness, the importance of your blackness, and your black presence.
— Toyin Odutola